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I first met the feisty Merve Kavakci in November 2000 when I chaired a meeting for her in the House of Lords to explain how she had been wrongfully prevented from taking her oath as an elected member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, purely because she insisted on wearing the Islamic headscarf.
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Avebury, L.E. (2010). Afterword. In: Headscarf Politics in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113947_7
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